Porcher is the author of the highly acclaimed book ‘The Shark Sessions,’ originally published under the name, ‘My Sunset Rendezvous’, which tells the story of how she got to know the sharks and what happened to them. The foreword to ‘The Shark Sessions’ was written by shark ethologist Samuel H. ‘Doc’ Gruber, founder of Bimini Shark Lab and the American Elasmobranch Society. He called the book “a jewel of a story.”

Porcher also created a mini-documentary which includes actual footage of the sharks she studied, and shows some surprising shark behavior.

Her second book, ‘Merlin: The Mind of a Sea Turtle’ provides evidence of the sentience of sea turtles, showing how these exquisitely designed marine reptiles can be willful characters with a perspective on life that very much matters to them.

Ila France Porcher is a self-taught, published ethologist. She grew up in British Columbia, Canada, and at an early age became fascinated by watching and drawing wild animals. As a result, she naturally became a wildlife artist, and as time passed, began documenting the behavior of the animals she observed and painted, being especially intrigued by actions suggesting intelligence and cognition.

This approach was balanced by university studies in the fields of physics, chemistry, and mathematics, which has left her with a unique perspective on the biosphere of this world.

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